Mae Jemison

First African American woman to be selected for the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) astronaut training program and was the first African American woman to travel in space. WEBSITES: https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_168.html https://www.space.com/17169-mae-jemison-biography.html https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Jemison-Mae.html https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mae-Jemison VIDEOS:   Books and more………… African American lives [videorecording]  Astronaut Mae Jemison  Shaking things up : 14 young women who changed the world …

Sonia Sotomayor

Nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history. In June 2016, Sotomayor made headlines when she wrote a scathing dissent  for Utah v. Edward Joseph Strieff, Jr., a case involving civil liberties in regards to preventing unlawful search and seizures protected by the U.S….

OPRAH

Oprah Winfrey is one of the most successful talk show hosts and multimedia publishers in American TV history. FUN FACTS: At 16 she landed a job that paid her to talk. A Nashville radio station, WVOL, hired Oprah to read the news on the air, which she says she loved. This gig helped Oprah get her big…